infanticide
B2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
The killing of an infant by its mother while the balance of her mind is disturbed by the effects of childbirth.
The charge was reduced to infanticide once medical evidence of post-natal disturbance was accepted.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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